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Dec 30, 2022 · Joan Lunden Recalls How Going Public with Her Breast Cancer Journey in 2014 'Changed' Her Life. The veteran journalist has been a leading advocate for breast cancer awareness ever since. Joan ...
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The facts: 10% - 20% of all breast cancers are triple negative. TNBC can be aggressive and difficult to treat. There is no targeted therapy for TNBC, which is why chemotherapy is most often used. Typically it disproportionately strikes younger women, women of African, Latina or Caribbean decent and those with BRCA1 mutations.
- You have to be your own patient advocate. I never understood that after you hear those words, you’re met with differing opinions about how you should go forward.
- Don’t worry about losing your hair. I’m not going to lie: Losing your hair is really weird. Hair is so part and parcel to your looks that when you take it away, it’s like someone drew a picture of you and they erased the hair.
- Going into ‘warrior mode’ will help you cope. You need to stay in a healthy, positive mind set. I’m in warrior mode right now, which means taking care of yourself and believing you’re going to be OK in the end.
- Diet plays such a huge role in preventing and fighting cancer. Many things that we eat and drink are causing us to get cancer. All the garbage food that I ate along with every other American —processed, refined foods — I now look at it with eyes wide open.
Jun 6, 2023 · Joan Lunden Advocates for Cancer Survivors. TV news legend Joan Lunden was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer back in 2014. “Triple negative” means that cancer cells don’t have estrogen or progesterone receptors and do not make much of a protein called HER2. Because of this “negative” status, this type of breast cancer can ...
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- You Have to Be Your Own Patient Advocate.
- Don’T Worry About Losing Your Hair.
- Going Into "Warrior Mode" Will Help You Cope.
- Diet Plays Such A Huge Role in Preventing and Fighting cancer.
- It’S Important to Become A Voracious Label Reader.
- There Are Ways to Make Chemotherapy easier.
- Staying Active During Treatment Can Help Your Body... and Mind.
- Give Yourself Some TLC.
- A Support System Is Key.
- A Mammogram Is Sometimes Not enough.
I never understood that after you hear those words, it’s common to be met with differing opinions about how you should go forward. I went in for a second and third opinion and everybody had a different take. At one point, it’s tossed back into your hands and ultimately you have to make the decision about treatment. Every single breast cancer is dif...
I’m not going to lie: Losing your hair is really weird. Hair is such an integral part of how you look and feel and when you take it away, it’s weird. It’s like someone drew a picture of you, but just erased the hair! Remember, you’re still you, you might just not look exactly like you for a while. I posed bald for the People coverit because I know ...
I personally think that it’s important to get yourself into a healthy, positive mind set. Before I lost my hair, I decided to take control and shave my head. That was the moment that I went into "warrior mode." I decided to fight and to BELIEVE that I was going to be OK. For me, that was a powerful tool in my healing. At first, I didn’t break down ...
When I started my chemotherapy, I began working with a nutritionist who put me on a no-wheat, no-dairy, no-sugar eating regimen. I must admit — at first I thought: What’s left when you take those away? But actually, there’s a lot left! I ate nutrient-dense foods that didn’t cause inflammation in my body. When I was given an eating regimen that I wa...
Sugar is added to almost everything we buy and eat. I stood in the aisle at Whole Foods one time and looked at 20 jars of spaghetti sauce and only two of them did not contain sugar. Start reading labels: I always considered myself a label reader, but I wasn’t. But boy, I am now.
There are so many different aspects to the difficulties chemo presents. From the actual infusions, to the side effects, and of course, the dangerous risk of infection. I learned a lot about various ways to help ease the process. When you’re going through chemotherapy, there are a lot of needles and I’ve always been a big needle weenie! I ended up g...
I tried as much as I could to maintain a somewhat normal schedule. I was set to host a baby shower for my pregnant daughter and kept it on my calendar. I decided that cancer wasn’t going to take that away from me. Try to get up each day and have something to do, even if it’s a goal like taking a walk outside to get fresh air. Staying active, and ev...
Sometimes, chemo felt like they were dropping a napalm bomb on me. You have to learn to give into it. One day, my oncologist looked at me and said, “You walk in here and I ask you how you’ve been doing and you tell me, ‘I’m doing great, I played tennis, I did this, I worked out,’ and then I look at your numbers and your white blood cell count is do...
Always take someone with you to every appointment because it’s really hard to take it all in. If you don’t have family around, ask a neighbor, another mom from school, or someone from your church or temple. In those first appointments, it’s like you’re in la-la land, it’s somewhat out-of-body and it’s difficult to retain all the information. I was ...
Be vigilant: Early detection gives you the best prognosis. And for some women, a mammogram alone is not enough. Ask your radiologist if you have dense breasts and if the answer is yes, ask them about secondary screening. I had a clean mammogram and then walked across the hall to get an ultrasound since I have dense breast tissue and found aggressiv...
Jan 9, 2020 · As an author she has shared her passion for health and wellness, family, and lifestyle topics—always with an authenticity and compassion—in 10 books. CancerConnect. In June 2014, Joan was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease requiring intensive treatment. She shared the diagnosis and subsequent ...
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Jan 20, 2016 · Andrew Eccles. When the sunniest woman in the history of morning news got hit with triple-negative breast cancer at age 63, her life changed, irreversibly. A year after finishing treatment, Joan ...
